Jennifer McLean repacking food at City Harvest’s Food Rescue Facility. Photo: Lori Cannava Turning a Famine into a Feast Being the COO of New York City’s largest food rescue organization is no easy task, but Jennifer McLean takes on the job with... News 05 Apr 2021 | 09:19
The author, age 11, at Camp Louise with her beloved Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal. Photo courtesy of Leah Foreman Out of My Shell - and Into the Potomac The first time I went to sleepaway camp, I was seven years old, a petite, baby-faced doll — used to being called out for... Camp Guide 26 Mar 2021 | 07:15
Muhammad Ali with Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton (center) and M.B. Lee (left), President of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association on “Muhammad Ali Day,” December 9, 1974. Photo: Emile Bocian, courtesy of The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) A Photographer’s Focus on Chinatown COVID-19 has challenged many cultural institutions to completely change their events to fit with public safety guidelines.... City Arts 24 Mar 2021 | 11:31
Room 24: Four grand panels of Fragonard’s series “The Progress of Love” are shown together at Frick Madison in a gallery illuminated by one of Marcel Breuer’s trapezoidal windows. This view shows two of the 1771–72 paintings, with two later overdoors visible in the next gallery. Photo: Joe Coscia The Frick Goes Minimalist The opening of the Frick Collection on March 18 in new temporary quarters, just north of the Gilded Age mansion, has been... City Arts 21 Mar 2021 | 05:44
On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo received the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccine from Dr. Jacqueline Delmont at a pop up vaccination site in Harlem. Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Taking Shots — At Each Other The Centers for Disease Control said Friday that grade schoolers can safely sit closer together in class than previously... News 20 Mar 2021 | 02:24
A steady flow of visitors. Photo: Karen Camela Watson Heading Back to Times Square Masked and expectant, a steady flow of visitors crossed into Times Square at 42nd Street and Broadway last Sunday afternoon,... News 19 Mar 2021 | 10:42
Governor Cuomo announcing on March 9 that New Yorkers 60 years and older and additional essential workers will be eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: Mike Groll/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Under Pressure Calls from state and city leaders for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation had trickled in slowly over the past several weeks... News 12 Mar 2021 | 03:00
Zoom with Benefits For the past 11 months, I’ve taught college classes thanks to Zoom on topics as diverse as, well, diversity and inclusion... Education Guide 22 Feb 2021 | 02:45
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo holds a press briefing on COVID-19 on Feb. 10, 2020, joined remotely by White House COVID officials. Photo: Darren McGee / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo How Much COVID Relief is Enough? One of New York’s biggest fiscal and economic challenges is that no one knows how big New York’s fiscal and economic challenge... News 13 Feb 2021 | 05:57
Restaurant Row, abnormally quiet, on a matinee day. Photo: Leida Snow Joe Allen Gone, Joe Allen’s Closed It was never about the menu. The highest praise restaurant critic Mimi Sheraton could muster was that “the food wasn’t too... Voices 12 Feb 2021 | 12:22
Sara Mearns. Photo: Erin Baiano Setting a New Barre for the Ballet Two weeks after Sara Mearns first moved to Manhattan, the city went through another devastating time, the tragedy of September... City Arts 09 Feb 2021 | 12:07
The author’s apartment door. Photo: Deborah Fenker “Bah, Lovebug!” “It’s a made up holiday.” “I buy my wife flowers when I want to ... not when some florist tells me to.” “We celebrate our... Voices 07 Feb 2021 | 05:20
Screenshot of Shams DaBaron, “Da Homeless Hero,” at the mayoral forum on the homeless crisis. Homeless Get a Seat at the Table The significance of Thursday night’s mayoral forum on the city’s homeless crisis was not lost on local activist Shams DaBaron.... News 06 Feb 2021 | 03:28
Photo: Dody Tsiantar Doors in Living Color The classic Crayola box has eight colors inside it - red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, brown and black. A few weeks... News 01 Feb 2021 | 03:32
Lujira Cooper: “I’ve become more concerned about other people’s rights.” Photo: Karsten Thormaehlen The Faces of LGBTQ Pioneers In the summer of 1969, when the Stonewall riots transpired, Lujira Cooper felt disconnected from the movement. In part, she... City Arts 25 Jan 2021 | 10:03